This Morning’s Holly Willoughby loses battle to extend £3m London home amid complaints from her neighbours
THIS Morning star Holly Willoughby has lost a battle to extend her £3million six-bedroom home.
The This Morning star, 40, and husband Dan Baldwin, 46, wanted to add a first-floor side and rear extension to their Edwardian London house.
Several local residents fired off letters of objection to the council, complaining the building work would cause disruption.
Holly and Dan - who share children Harry, 12, Belle, ten, and six-year-old Chester - have faced an uphill struggle to extend their home since buying it in 2011.
The TV power couple originally wanted to build a two-storey extension but the plans were thrown out five years ago.
They lodged an appeal but it was dismissed by a planning inspector, and then submitted scaled-down plans for a one-storey extension in April.
It was Holly and Dan's 14th planning application since buying the place for £2.8million in 2011, but permission has again now been refused.
The grounds for refusal relate to fire safety and "design and heritage" reasons - but many of their neighbours objected to the noise that would be involved.
Having the noise all day and all week for so many months is not the standard of living in such an expensive area to live
One of Holly's neighbours
One wrote: "Due to Covid, I am now permanently working from home and the noise and disruption this will cause is enormous."
They added: "My work space is right by the project and having the noise all day and all week for so many months is not the standard of living in such an expensive area to live.
"I don't pay taxes to get this level of disruption, it is not quality of life."
Another resident wrote: "It would cause significant difficulties in terms of access and parking as well as disturbance during the day.
"I regularly work from home and so the works would have an even greater effect on my life."
A planning officer ruled: "The proposal by reason of its combined height, siting, width and depth contributes to an excessive scale and level of massing which would be an inappropriate and unsympathetic form of development harmful to the character and appearance of the host building... causing less than substantial harm to the character and appearance of the conservation area.
"The benefits put forward are not considered to outweigh the identified harm."
Holly and Dan now have three months to appeal against the council's decision if they wish to.
The Sun has contacted a rep for Holly.
